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First, I would like to thank everyone for their
comments and warnings on drivers and ports in deciding what PC to get. I am particularly grateful to Patricia who alerted me to the fact that ps2 ports, vga ports, serial ports, and parallel ports are no longer routinely available on new brand name computers. Would appreciate any comments or sugges-
tions. After reviewing the discussion in the archive on ntfs and fat32 I plan to partition the new 160 gig hard drive that I am getting in a new pc into 5 logical drives. Dell is shipping it with freedos. I have licensed copies of xp pro and win98se. A 160gb hard drive is about four times the
size that I need, but that is the minimum size hard drive that dell now sells. Ps can anyone explain when you call up a pure text
document in notepad and wordpad when it will line
wrap and when it will not.
The first or c drive should be ntfs, on which I
plan to store both xp and win98se unless there is a reason that I should not do that. I intend to dual boot to get the Dos kernel in win98se for Xywrite. I will use xp for using and downloading from Lexis and Westlaw, surfing the net and whatever windows applications I am forced to use. I plan to make the other drives fat32. It is my understanding that for Dos programs
and my Xywrite documents and Wordperfect 5.1 documents I should use fat32, though I did not understand why from reading the archives. In deciding on a format type my main concern is how Xywrite and other Dos applications will run not how windows applications will run. My primary reason for making the other drives
fat32 is that it is my understanding that if you format a drive in fat32 you can change it to ntfs but that reverse is not true. Since I expect from past experience to use
about 10 to 15 gigs of drive c and well under 10 gigs on drive d and there is a ton of empty drive space left, can you triple boot and if you can triple boot should I also put vista on this pc and if so should it also go on c. I assume it should be on an ntfs drive. I have 4 gigs of ram. In considering whether to install vista, I do not
run any graphics programs other than to re- ceive pictures from my kids, no music, no video. Once in a rare while I use adobe writer and even more rarely a spread sheet or I apologize to the list Word. |